Jennifer Egan Quotes

I wasn't a kid who wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a doctor. I was kind of morbid. I was really into the body and how it could go wrong. I wanted to dig up bodies from the graveyard.

Jennifer Egan

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DoctorBodyWrongGoKindKid

How does one gain confidence? It's just the repetitive nature of telling you how good you are. How good of a putter and chipper you are. How you've got this. You can beat the best players in the world. You've got all the talent. You just have to believe in yourself.

Jimmy Walker

NatureGoodConfidenceBestYourself

I'm really not thick-skinned - my wife will tell you that I take sunsets personally - but I know that I've got the belly for whatever comes down the pike. I think it's tenacity. You've been there before, and you just have to recall, 'How did I handle that one?'

Jerry Lewis

WifeThinkYouDownKnowTenacity

I'd dreamed of being in the food business from the moment my globetrotting parents introduced me to the foods of the world during childhood trips to Europe and Asia.

Andrew Zimmern

BusinessFoodMomentChildhoodWorld

The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.

Maurice Jarre

MusicManAdventureKingFrustration

Cop families have guns in their houses. It's a bigger question for mothers. When is the right time to introduce to your children the things that could hurt them? But not having the knowledge could hurt them.

Amy Carlson

KnowledgeChildrenTimeHurtRight

It's disgusting how much I laugh during the day.

Rosie Perez

DayLaughMuchDisgustingHow

That honeymoon phase is so much fun in real life, when you meet and discover somebody new and fall in love and chase them. The pursuit. And that climactic final moment of ultimate togetherness.

Lucas Neff

LifeLoveMomentFunYouFall

Canada has been phenomenal to myself, my brother, my sister, their kids, my parents. They came there. They worked very hard. They came with a great education, very good heads on their shoulders with the simple thought of going there with almost nothing and just saying, 'We're doing this to give our kids the best opportunity possible.'

Milos Raonic

EducationGoodOpportunityGreat

It ended up taking eight years to finish college because I got deployed and went overseas.

Jon Huertas

CollegeFinishYearsUpGotBecause

Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.

Anthony Kennedy

PoliceFreeQuestionsPersonAsking

When you get pregnant, you start reading pregnancy books. Everything has been pretty textbook. It's amazing how they can say, 'This week, this might happen,' and it kind of does. I had typical nausea the first trimester, which was no fun. And extreme tiredness.

Anna Silk

FunAmazingStartReadingWeekYou

I've always - I grew up on the old-style traditional type of golf course, tree lined and all small greens, big undulations. And Oakmont just fit my eye.

Paula Creamer

TreeSmallEyeGolfAlwaysBig

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